QVA retreat in Wales for prayer and work
Friends took part in a working retreat in Wales this month
A group of Friends this month enjoyed a working retreat in the oldest Quaker Meeting house in continuous use in Wales.
The Quaker Voluntary Action (QVA) working retreat was held at the Pales Meeting House, in Powys. Friends gathered on 3-6 August to pray, garden and share food as a community.
Laura Conyngham, from Exeter Meeting and who facilitated the QVA working retreat, said: ‘In 1657 George Fox spoke to a crowd, down the road, on Penybont Common. We worshipped there, with the sheep. We also worshipped by the pond, in the seventeenth century burial ground, up the hill behind us… and at Llandrindod Wells Meeting.’
She added: ‘Two Friends, from Italy, reminded the other seven of us of Ora et labora – “Pray and work”. I felt in tune with the surrounding hills, the Quaker prayerfulness around us, and with our work places
Laura Conyngham described being able to participate in the QVA retreat as an ‘astonishing opportunity’.
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